About the Role
STV is seeking an experienced architectural professional to join our Buildings practice in Washington, DC. This role involves meaningful ownership of design, documentation, multidisciplinary coordination, and project delivery for complex public-facing projects. It is not a task-based production role, requiring the candidate to independently manage significant project portions, resolve issues, coordinate across disciplines, guide junior staff, and translate design intent into constructible documentation.
Responsibilities
- Lead significant portions of architectural work from concept design through construction administration.
- Take ownership of building areas, station components, work packages, or smaller projects.
- Develop and coordinate Revit models, plans, sections, elevations, details, schedules, and technical documentation.
- Translate design intent into coordinated and constructible architectural solutions.
- Generate and evaluate design options in response to program, code, systems, constructability, phasing, and project constraints.
- Coordinate directly with structural, civil, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, transportation, systems, and planning disciplines.
- Identify coordination conflicts, technical risks, and unresolved issues and help drive them toward resolution.
- Lead or actively contribute to multidisciplinary coordination meetings.
- Perform building code, accessibility, life safety, zoning, and regulatory analyses.
- Develop technical details, assemblies, and specifications.
- Review drawing sets for quality, consistency, constructability, and coordination.
- Guide junior staff and provide clear direction and constructive feedback.
- Support client presentations and technical discussions.
- Participate in field investigations and existing-condition documentation.
- Support construction administration, including RFIs, submittals, field conditions, and construction-related design issues.
Requirements
- A professional degree in Architecture.
- 5–8 years of relevant professional experience.
- Architectural licensure required.
- Strong design judgment combined with proven technical and production capability.
- Experience developing projects through multiple phases of design and documentation.
- Ability to independently carry meaningful portions of a project with limited day-to-day direction.
- Strong understanding of multidisciplinary coordination, constructability, and project delivery.
- Experience with architectural detailing, building envelope systems, code analysis, accessibility, specifications, and construction administration.
- Strong verbal, graphic, and written communication skills.
- Ability to mentor or guide junior staff.
- Strong accountability, initiative, attention to detail, and responsiveness to feedback.
- Experience with complex passenger rail stations and support facilities requiring heavy multidisciplinary coordination is strongly preferred.
- Relevant experience may include: Passenger stations and station support facilities, Station entrances and accessibility improvements, Multidisciplinary systems integration, Active or operational transportation environments, Complex phasing and construction constraints.
- Candidates without rail transit experience may also be considered if they demonstrate strong architectural delivery skills and the ability to learn complex project environments quickly.
Skills
- Revit
- Bluebeam
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Microsoft Office
- OpenBuildings Designer
- BIM 360 / Autodesk Construction Cloud
- AutoCAD
Location
- Washington, DC
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5-8 years
Education Level
- Professional degree in Architecture
Salary/Compensations
- $102,094.36 - $116,679.27
Benefits
- Health insurance, including an option with a Health Savings Account
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care and Transit and Parking where applicable)
- Disability insurance
- Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment
- 401(k) Plan
- Retirement Counseling
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Time Off (starting at 16 days)
- Paid Holidays (9 days)
- Back-Up Dependent Care (up to 10 days per year)
- Parental Leave (up to 80 hours)
- Continuing Education Program
- Professional Licensure and Society Memberships
About the Company
- STV is committed to paying all of its employees in a fair, equitable, and transparent manner.
- We know great candidates don’t always meet every qualification, and research shows women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they do.
- At STV, we believe strong talent comes from a wide range of backgrounds, and your skills and experience may align with this or another opportunity as we continue to grow.
Equal Opportunity
- STV is committed to paying all of its employees in a fair, equitable, and transparent manner.
- We know great candidates don’t always meet every qualification, and research shows women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they do.
- At STV, we believe strong talent comes from a wide range of backgrounds, and your skills and experience may align with this or another opportunity as we continue to grow.
